From: m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT cri DOT nz (Mark Hadfield) Subject: Path name conversion utilities 28 Jan 1998 19:12:00 -0800 Message-ID: <000501bd2c38$0967f300$b638cb83.cygnus.gnu-win32@gust.niwa.cri.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gnu-Win32 Mailing List" A couple of weeks ago I asked the list about programs to convert between Win32 and POSIX-style pathnames. Thanks to those who replied, particularly Mumit Khan who pointed me to a message in the mailing list archives. I have now written a set of utilities and have found them extremely useful, so am offering them to the world, here: http://www.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/gust/software/gnu-win32/cygwinpath.zip It seems to me that programs like these should be bundled with Gnu-Win32. An abbreviated version of the README follows... This zip file contains console programs for conversion between Win32-style and POSIX-style path names using the Cygwin32 API. All programs take input either from the command-line (default) or from standard input (-i option) and send output (one line per entry) to stdout. For an example of how these programs can be used, make sure bash.exe and posixpath.exe are on the search path, then load the file dirprompt.reg into the registry. Then right-click on a directory and select "Bash Prompt" to start a bash shell in that directory. It even works on UNC directories with spaces in the name, which is why it needs so many quotes in the command string! There's also a fileprompt.reg which works when you right-click on files. Have fun! ---- Mark Hadfield, m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT cri DOT nz http://www.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/ National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".